Word.ws English Dictionary

residuous

residuous adjective: remaining; residual.

Adjective

residuous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Remaining; residual.
    • above the violence of war and of the tempest, above all that is residuous of a wasted world1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume IV (second series, volume I), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC

Origin of residuous

Latin residuus.

Questions about residuous

What does residuous mean?
Residuous means remaining; residual.
What part of speech is residuous?
Residuous is an adjective.

Words near residuous in the dictionary

  1. residuelessness
  2. residuent
  3. residuents
  4. residues
  5. residuosity
  6. residuous
  7. residuum
  8. residuums
  9. resieve
  10. resieved
  11. resieves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: residuous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “residuous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/residuous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.